Personalized Banners: Useful for Everything!

While most people hear “personalized banner” and think “graduation party,” personalized banners can be used for much more.  Just think: you can hang a banner on your garage door if you’re hosting a graduation, welcome home, bon voyage, or birthday party.  You can hang a banner at the outside entrance to a prom or a dance so attendees know which door to enter through.  You could also use a personalized banner if you have a pep rally at your school—or if you have a booth selling prom tickets!  There are many, many uses for personalized banners—and now you can create your own.

You can pick from a variety of backgrounds, choose whether or not your want pictures, and pick what message you want your banner to show.  There are also seven different sizes of banners, so you really can pick one to fit your event or project—the biggest banner is roughly the size of a double garage door!  The banners include grommets, so you’re able to easily hang your banner indoor or outdoors, and they’re printed on vinyl.  Not only will you have a durable banner ready to hang anywhere, but it’s one that you created.  Once your friends see your creative stamp, they’ll be eager to help plan the next event so they can create a banner, too!

Make Your Event Unique With Cardboard Standees

Cardboard standees are great additions to many different event decorations.  They can be used as entryways to your prom, arches to take pictures under, or simply as a 3D backdrop to your event.  Not every prom committee uses cardboard standees—some use balloon arches or other things.  Cardboard standees, however, add dimension to your prom or event in a way that not many other things could.

Even if you’re having a themed prom or dance, there are a variety of options for cardboard standees that you can use.  There are standees for casino proms, Hollywood proms, and Mardi Gras proms, among many others.  Some cardboard standees allow you to paste your picture over the face of the standee.  That gives you one more way to create a fun memory of the night.

If you’re having a city-themed dance, there are a variety of backdrops you could decorate with.  You could choose London or New York, whether present-day or in the Roaring 20′s, with city-specific standees like Big Ben and the Brooklyn Bridge Archway, or you could create your own with towering skyscrapers.  Your options are wide open, but whatever you choose, remember that using a cardboard standee will help your event stand out.

After-Prom Activity Ideas

Post- or after-prom parties have become quite popular as a way to keep prom fun going under supervision. They are casual events and activity-based. Just for fun we’ve also tied some after-party ideas to related prom themes.

Movie night. Arrange a movie theater showing just for your post-prom crowd. Narrow down movie selections to relate somehow to the Prom theme: Pirates of the Caribbean to follow a Treasure Bay theme, Some Like it Hot for a 1920s gangster theme, etc. Serve up lots of hot popcorn and bulk candies.

Dance party. Rent club space if you can. If you had a Hollywood theme, make the post-prom about Rock Stars. You might even re-use some of the decorations if logistics permit it: glitzy metallic curtains, spotlight cutouts, even the red carpet aisle runner!

House party. Some prom-goers’ families love to host post-prom house parties, especially if they have special features like pool tables, swimming pools, or space for a bonfire. Select a few decorations related to the prom theme but a more casual version, for example a beach party post-prom event following an underwater theme prom using surf shack decor.

Bowling party. A black tie event and a bowling party might not be polar opposites, but they’re close! Participants often don’t even change clothes first, finding it a hilarious tradition to bowl in their prom duds.

Carnival party. Hold this in an arcade, amusement park or a school gym. This is a very popular option and often run by PTAs and other parents’ groups no matter what the theme, but would be a nice complement to a casino theme prom.